by randy | Jan 24, 2017 | Flowers, Ginger Plants, Spice |
This little herb is fairly well known throughout Southeast Asia, but in America it is very rare and difficult to find. It is used as a culinary herb, as well as medicinally. The rhizomes are used throughout its range, as a culinary herb to flavor rice. This is one of...
by randy | Jan 14, 2017 | Flowers, Rare Plants |
Golden Dragon Impatiens Impatiens repens is an extremely rare plant from Sri Lanka. It is in fact considered to be extinct in the wild due to habitat destruction. The flowers look like a fiercely roaring golden dragon. The flowers are large for impatiens, and...
by randy | Jan 8, 2017 | Flowers |
Australian violet Many people who move from northern states, to Florida, often try to grow temperate plants that they are familiar with, or that they associate with their childhood, only to find that they sizzle up in the heat of the Florida Summers. Click here for a...
by randy | Jan 4, 2017 | Flowers, Ginger Plants |
Costus fissiligulatus This African spiral ginger is the bloomiest plant of any Costus I’ve ever grown. They stay on the small side at about three feet tall, but the flowers are on the large side at two and a half inches across. This plant is rather rare in the...
by randy | Jun 16, 2016 | Flowers, Rare Plants |
From Amorphophallus to Zamioculcas, members of the aroidacea family are the quintessential, tropical foliage plants. If you look at any tropical landscape painting, you will see many examples of aroid plants. Many aroids are climbers, such as the Philodendrons, or the...
by randy | Jun 16, 2016 | Flowers |
Black Flamingo I am quite surprised that this plant is not everywhere in Florida landscapes. This is such a beautiful and easy plant to grow. Very few pests bother it, it never needs pruning, it smothers weeds, it is not invasive, it is very forgiving of poor soil...
